Talk:Pyro (G1)

Captain Carrot

I know it's a really small thing but I disagree with the Captain Carrot caption. Captain Carrot is what we THOUGHT Pyro was like from the first issue of Wreckers, a young eager wide-eyed innocent Prime-ish good guy... but subsiquent issues have shown us that he's very much NOT that robot. He's actually a selfish immature poser who wants to be a Carrot/Prime type but doesn't have the heroic nature, moral strength, or selflessness to pull it off. He wishes he were Captain Carrot. --76.28.76.206 11:55, 14 May 2010 (EDT)

Spark vs Pyro

Just a random weird thought. If Botcon gives Spark an entirely different personality than Wreckers Pyro (and they probably will) then it raises the question for me whether they should be split into seperate pages. Yes they still share the same toy, but so do LOTS of characters that have the same toy and even the same deco of that toy. The fact is they will have been released with entirely different names and each have entirely different personas. That seems a good (though weird) case for seperation IMO. --76.28.76.206 14:37, 14 May 2010 (EDT)

They may have different names, but both Pyro and Spark share the same tech specs and bio. --ItsWalky 13:31, 27 May 2010 (EDT)

One word. "Shockwave". --M Sipher 15:18, 27 May 2010 (EDT)

Another word. "Blaster". --Detour 15:52, 27 May 2010 (EDT)

Just for the sake of the argument, though, if the Marvel version of the character was called "Shockblast" and the Sunbow version was called "Shockwave", we might consider them two separate characters. Isn't that basically what happens with Masterforce? Different names plus different personalities/origins = different characters?--Jimsorenson 15:56, 27 May 2010 (EDT)

There is Skyfire/Jetfire. Masterforce was different in pretty much everything. Completely different gimmick mechanics being a major one. I don't think there is much of anything to tie the characters together. East and West did their own thing. I am amused though, that for the most part the crazy English-Malay dub uses the Hasbro names for the most part. - Starfield 16:08, 27 May 2010 (EDT)

One character named Spark that gets two totally different portrayles (Walky's examples) is one thing. But one character named Pyro who gets one portrayle in Wreckers, and another named Spark who gets a totally different personality/bio in Fun Pub and they mearly happen to share a toy... I can see the argument. Yes, it's a bit obtuse in logic, but it does make a certain sense. The different names and different fictional portrails put it just to the line of "different enough for a new page" for me. Your milage may vary.--ZacWilliam 16:35, 27 May 2010 (EDT)

I'm not necessarily advocating it, just suggesting that we might not want to be too hasty to dismiss the idea.--Jimsorenson 16:39, 27 May 2010 (EDT)

Except that they're both based on the same original toy from G2 that just happened to get two names. --Detour 19:55, 27 May 2010 (EDT)

I'm not arguing for it, just saying I understand it. Look at all the "reassigned" toys of recent years. Two seperate characters sharing the exact same toy get different profiles because they're different people with different names and personalities. The only difference in this case was that the always differently named versions were only established as different personalities/bios after many years. Again, I'm not saying I'm for it, it's kinda over-complicated logic, I just understand the why the idea exists. --ZacWilliam 20:44, 27 May 2010 (EDT)

A "repurposed" toy is, by definition, a different character. When the character was being created, he was intended to be a different character from the toy, but just borrowing his likeness. I don't think that when the different versions of Pyro/Spark were being created they were intending to make a different character from the toy. The were intending to pull that character into their fiction, not create a new character. - Starfield 21:35, 27 May 2010 (EDT)

Spark is Pyro. He's only named "Spark" because of Trademark. If not for that, he'd be named Pyro because HE IS PYRO. --M Sipher 21:30, 27 May 2010 (EDT)

Oh, don't get huffy like we've never split hairs like this before. Consider the Universe/ROTF Aerialbots and Combaticons: same toys, same decos, same names, same "bios"... but put 'em in packaging from another franchise, and BOOM new characters. Different reasoning, yes, but still a fine line we've drawn.

In this case, I do agree with your conclusion, but I think the question isn't unreasonable. I see Walky's point as the key to the answer: It's not just that Pyro and Spark have the same toy; they also have the same bio. It's hard for me to imagine a new portrayal so vastly different that it would override that connection. I guess if they were written as two coexisting characters, that would count, but otherwise...

Ultimately the distinction is, I think, a matter of degrees. For instance, Slag and Charger have virtually identical bios, but nothing ELSE is the same, so we separate them. That's why I say the question is reasonable to ask.

- Jackpot 18:47, 28 May 2010 (EDT)

BotCon info

Are we in the clear to put up stuff about Pyro from his exclusive toy profile and the BotCon comic? The "Club only" template isn't quite an accurate description of that... --Andrusi 17:59, 3 July 2010 (EDT)

The Club waiting period mandate only covers fiction that's exclusive to TCC subscriptions and not available outside that, whereas the BotCon toys and comic are technically available to the public now for anyone who wants to shell out the dough. (I think that's our reasoning, anyway.) --Jeysie 18:15, 3 July 2010 (EDT)

The Female Sparks

I'm sorry but where the section that show this alternate universe version with the name Pyra Ignatia Spark?--Projectus (talk) 20:22, 12 March 2017 (EDT)

It like it was the Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter Facebook page. No section's been written up yet, though the Andromeda article is treating Pyra as a Transtech character and therefore a separate individual to this one. --abates (talk) 20:38, 12 March 2017 (EDT)

The Andromeda page is wrong-she's a version of the G2 one. Escargon (talk) 20:40, 12 March 2017 (EDT)

(There's quite a bit wrong with the pages, in fact, gonna have to look over them....) Escargon (talk) 20:49, 12 March 2017 (EDT)

Ah! We just need a section written up here then. --abates (talk) 21:22, 12 March 2017 (EDT)

Okay, went to the facebook page (Somewhat surprise to see it still there.) and there no mention of what world that pyra came from. So i say until proven that we should trust Escargon judgement on this.--Projectus (talk) 04:45, 13 March 2017 (EDT)

That seems like a pretty good bet! --abates (talk) 05:32, 13 March 2017 (EDT)

NightViper confirmed it over at the Allspark, https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/116666-rook-andromeda-on-facebook/page-286 Escargon (talk) 06:07, 13 March 2017 (EDT)

Personal canon or canon?

https://twitter.com/JesseWittenrich/status/1728059174569840776?t=kkyYXz8kY3li9AroA4l9IQ&s=19 I...dunno what to make of this.Poliwag06 (talk) 09:54, 24 November 2023 (EST)

Very little. --Thylacine 2000 (talk) 11:15, 24 November 2023 (EST)

Motion to edit the summary to mention his title

Pyro has been knighted by the Queen of England, therefore he is an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. [1]

Therefore, I suggest that the first line of the summary read as thus:

    Sir Pyro, OBE (aka Spark) is another in a proud tradition of selfless Autobot heroes.

The rest of the page doesn't need to be changed, just the first reference. The Wikipedia page for Sir Pat [2] is a good example of what I mean!

--Reliantrobindecepticon (talk) 13:35, 11 March 2025 (EDT)

I understand where you're coming from, but that's a story beat that doesn't hold true in all the other continuities he appears in, and we generally try to keep our intro paragraphs as continuity-neutral as possible. Locoman (talk) 14:02, 11 March 2025 (EDT)